A compilation of recordings by Carl Hall "You Don't Know Nothing About Love: The Loma/Atlantic Recordings
1967-1972" from his period at Loma and Atlantic has been reissued on CD, although
not available digitally. It was originally released in 2015 by
Ominivore.
Hall released six singles on Mercury between 1964-66 before joining Loma
for two singles in 1967-68 followed by just the one single released on
Atlantic. The compilation includes both sides of the three singles
along with another thirteen unreleased tracks which includes alternate
takes of four of the songs.
Hall was born Carl Henry Caldwell in Pittsburgh, PA in 1934 and began
singing in church and joined Ohio based The Raspberry Singers and became
their lead singer by the time they released their first single on Vee
Jay in 1954. He left the group when drafted into military service and when demobbed in
1962 began his solo career.
His first couple of singles were covers released as C. Henry Hall and
Carl Henry Hall on Mercury . His third Mercury single was produced by Gene
Redd and Quincy Jones. Two of his further singes were produced by Lou
Courtney and the other by George Kerr before he met Jerry
Ragavoy.
Ragavoy, impressed by his four octave range, secured him a contract with
Warners Bros. imprint Loma where the flip side of his first single is a
Northern Soul in-demander "Mean It Baby" but is probably now more sought after for the killer deep soul official A
side "You Don't Know Nothing About Love". One more single was released by Loma before it went bust: "I Don't Want to Be Your Used to Be" / "The Dam Busted".
Despite the lack of success on any of his singles so far, Ragovoy stuck
with Hall for his next release "Need Somebody To Love" / "Change With The Seasons" on Atlantic in 1972 which also failed to make any commercial impact.
Although, unfortunately not on this compilation as it was released by
Columbia in 1973, one of his most sought after recording is "What About You" (included below). Only one further single is listed for him, a
house/dance song "I Just Love Makin' Love" in 1987, which we're not entirely
convinced is the same artist as it is completely out of kilter with other
releases.
Click on image below for link to where you can buy from.
| Rating: | 8.4 |
| Explicit: | N |
| Genre/Style: | Northern Soul / Deep Soul |
| Format: | Album / Compilation |
| Media: | CD |
| Label: | Warner Music Group |
| Cat No: | None |
| Date: | 19/05/2023 |
| Price: | £9.61 |
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